A book of Robert Browning's poetry annotated by Mark Twain.
Davis Dunavin / Courtesy of the Mark Twain Library
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The library's original ledger, showing Mark Twain's first donated books.
Davis Dunavin / Courtesy of the Mark Twain Library
Mark Twain lived all over the country – but spent his last years in the small town of Redding, Connecticut. One of his final acts before he died was to set aside a little money to build the Mark Twain Library.
Davis Dunavin loves telling stories, whether on the radio or around the campfire. He started in Missouri and ended up in Connecticut, which, he'd like to point out, is the same geographic trajectory taken by Mark Twain.